Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2: Last night, then end of a really big era of TV,
Speaker 2: A TV show that actually my country and your country
Speaker 2: both share. It's bigger in England, where Neighbors has been
Speaker 2: watched for decades by millions of people. It's on twice
Speaker 2: a day. There was the original screening at lunchtime, when
Speaker 2: if you're sick from school you always watched it at lunchtime,
Speaker 2: and then it was on again at five half past five,
Speaker 2: and it was one of the biggest shows in on
Speaker 2: British TV for years and years and years. So the
Speaker 2: fact that this came come to an end it felt
Speaker 2: last night when I was watching it all you actually
Speaker 2: felt like you were saying goodbye to an era of
Speaker 2: TV that actually isn't going to ever be the same again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right in a way because now we're so
Speaker 3: used to streaming shows with big budgets, and it was
Speaker 3: funny to watch Neighbors again like considerably a lower budget
Speaker 3: that were used to be.
Speaker 2: It was spoiled. Now it's a feast of all this
Speaker 2: amazing streaming content. We've got almost too much to keep
Speaker 2: up with. What show you should be watching? And because
Speaker 2: we grew up the TV that's just how it was then.
Speaker 2: And also they churned out thousands and thousands and thousands
Speaker 2: of episodes over the years. What do we all think
Speaker 2: of it, Patsy, what do you think of it? Yesterday?
Speaker 4: I hadn't watched it since I was like fifteen or sixteen,
Speaker 4: and I know what you mean. It's kind of I
Speaker 4: don't know if lack lust year is the right word
Speaker 4: to use, but I exactly word.
Speaker 2: Jack and I were texting each other yesterday. Jack said lacklusty.
Speaker 3: Actually, as it started, I texted other people to say,
Speaker 3: is this the last episode or second to last, because
Speaker 3: it didn't start with the fanfare of like this is
Speaker 3: the final over Neighbors.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, And it felt wrong that it was a
Speaker 4: Thursday night and not Anyway, I loved it. I loved it.
Speaker 4: I love that Charlene was back, Kylie and Jason, and
Speaker 4: I love that Annie Jane was back. I loved it
Speaker 4: back when I was.
Speaker 2: Young, the stuff with her and Guy Peace was done.
Speaker 2: It was just great son. Obviously Guy Peas is a big,
Speaker 2: big international act superstar like my Good Rob as well,
Speaker 2: but him just committing to a very simple storyline of
Speaker 2: the Neighbours show.
Speaker 3: It's like good on here, It's kind of built around
Speaker 3: He must have been of the biggest stars that have
Speaker 3: come out of Neighbors. He must have been the one
Speaker 3: that said, yeah, I'll do this properly, whereas Kylie came
Speaker 3: back and didn't say a word.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 4: That's kind of weird, wasn't it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what was that? I couldn't work on what the
Speaker 2: story was. There'd obviously be a story there. And I
Speaker 2: also know from somebody who worked on that show as well,
Speaker 2: Margot Robbie. Obviously she did her bit. She wasn't there.
Speaker 2: She sent forty bottles of champagne for the What a
Speaker 2: classy thing to do. But yeah, I thought the end
Speaker 2: of Felt was actually quite nostalgic. I thought it was
Speaker 2: really I was actually surprisingly moved by it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the end, That's how I felt. I haven't watched
Speaker 3: it in years as well, probably since I was a kid.
Speaker 3: So much so that Tony in Yesterday's episode I noticed
Speaker 3: had an adult son and I was like, they.
Speaker 2: Grew up so fast. I was reading Yesterday over the years.
Speaker 2: Then at Erin's Brother, there's been one hundred kidnapping and
Speaker 2: hostage situations I mean, I know some suburbs in the
Speaker 2: city go through quite a lot. They've also been thirty
Speaker 2: nine natural disasters.
Speaker 5: That's almost one a year as a dangerous spot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sixty four deaths, fifteen people have come back from
Speaker 2: the dead. Oh wow, what a show. So today I
Speaker 2: thought we do a special version of The Weakest Claim
Speaker 2: to Fame. It is such a big show and it's
Speaker 2: actually so many We know about the stars who've been
Speaker 2: in front of the camera, but so many people would
Speaker 2: have worked on that show over the years. It's actually
Speaker 2: a bit very big Melbourne institution really and TV institution
Speaker 2: here in Britain as well. So weak is claim to Fine?
Speaker 2: What is your weakest claim to fine? Some of you
Speaker 2: may have been background extras in it as well. Weak
Speaker 2: is Claim to Fine? A Neighbours special and Jack and
Speaker 2: I were wondering whether there's anyone listening who's actually seen
Speaker 2: every single episode. We've obviously stopped over the last twenty years,
Speaker 2: but maybe you start with it Neighbors. What have you got?
Speaker 2: Christian o Connell's show podcast at eight the Swanning They
Speaker 2: way back to the Suntall Stadium. It's the Grand Final Innocence.
Speaker 2: We'll take on experience in the trade e games, five
Speaker 2: thousand dollars up for grabs. Who will be the king
Speaker 2: of all trades? We talked this warning about the ending
Speaker 2: finally of Neighbors. What is your weakest claim to famee
Speaker 2: to do with the TV show Neighbors on nine four
Speaker 2: one four three. We've had some great claims to faign
Speaker 2: over the last year or two we've been doing it.
Speaker 2: That often Neighbors comes up some of our favorite ones.
Speaker 2: There was a cool we had once about someone's partner
Speaker 2: fainting due to heat stroke at shopping center and Luke
Speaker 2: Carpenter from Neighbors came to the rescue. You remember that
Speaker 2: also that somebody used to work at a Telstra court
Speaker 2: center with Harold why he was on the show. All right, then,
Speaker 2: so what is your weakest claim to fame? To do
Speaker 2: the TV show Neighbors? Nine to four one four one
Speaker 2: four three Trevor, Good morning.
Speaker 6: Good morning came How are we Trevor.
Speaker 2: Trevor, tell us about you and Neighbors? Then?
Speaker 6: Yes, I did six episodes as a BMX stunt double
Speaker 6: for two of the actors.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, think of the stunt scene.
Speaker 6: Your friend because he was too tall he was a
Speaker 6: stunt he does stunt all over the world, and he
Speaker 6: rang up me because I was a BMX and he's like, no,
Speaker 6: I think it'd be the right height. And I got
Speaker 6: there and I was the exact height of two of
Speaker 6: the actors, So I got the job.
Speaker 2: What was the stunt? Can you remember what did you
Speaker 2: have to do? Because if his nighbors, he wanted me
Speaker 2: to think too.
Speaker 6: Death to find No, there was a few if I
Speaker 6: had to do a three sixty over a set of
Speaker 6: doubles in Harold's back in his garden.
Speaker 5: When did Harold have a set of doubles in his gardens?
Speaker 6: The kids got the shovel out and made some dirt
Speaker 6: jumps up and one night there I was raining, I
Speaker 6: had to lay in a puddle. I'm like, I'm just
Speaker 6: laying in this puddle in the I was freezing. I
Speaker 6: was like, this is going to be worth some good money.
Speaker 2: Do you remember what you were paid? You wouldn't have
Speaker 2: been paid much of bet.
Speaker 6: Oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: One time I was there for twenty minutes. I nearly
Speaker 6: got around a thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: And one of the shows wrapping up that he could
Speaker 2: have got and they could have actually made a Friday
Speaker 2: Night episode they run out of cash. Trevor, thank you
Speaker 2: very much. You cool guys. Paula, Good morning, Paula. What's
Speaker 2: your week? Claim to fine? To do with the Neighbors?
Speaker 7: Okay, so back in the eighties, I used to work
Speaker 7: for camut Roville on Stud Road and they used to
Speaker 7: close off the front of the car park and do
Speaker 7: filming there on our lunch breaks. We used to come
Speaker 7: out for our lunch.
Speaker 8: Break where they stand.
Speaker 7: We're doesn't stand there and watch the actual show being filmed,
Speaker 7: just like.
Speaker 2: The Hollywood lot, you know, if people going and see
Speaker 2: what TV shows and movies have been made for you.
Speaker 2: Who's the latest scenes in Neighbors Paula on a lunch.
Speaker 8: Break that was it was just amazing, like just to
Speaker 8: watch them all filming, and they had the all the
Speaker 8: big trucks there, you know, and we're obviously they were
Speaker 8: getting fed and everything there. It was just like, oh
Speaker 8: my god, we're watching the Neighbors things filmed in the
Speaker 8: car park.
Speaker 2: Just to see those famous people eating the back of
Speaker 2: a truck. Paula, thank you very much. She called, Let's
Speaker 2: go to Matt. Good morning, Matt, Hi, I'm good, but
Speaker 2: happy Friday all right, Yeah, what's your week clean to
Speaker 2: fain to do with the TV show Neighbors.
Speaker 9: My week kind of fame was and kind of skiz
Speaker 9: sometimes is. I was in an eighties cover band with
Speaker 9: Kim Valentine in nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 2: She was was that Lebby that's Lebby?
Speaker 9: Yeah, And she was only about eighteen at the time,
Speaker 9: but she loved the eighties and wanted to sort of
Speaker 9: be part of the whole thing.
Speaker 10: And it was right when we were launching the band,
Speaker 10: and everyone.
Speaker 9: Thought we were crazy because it was only nineteen ninety
Speaker 9: five and the eighties hadn't finished that long ago.
Speaker 2: But because five years yeah, I remember five years ago,
Speaker 2: that would be like.
Speaker 3: Us now sewing in twenty sixteen cover band, it was like.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but because she was singing, of course, the rooms
Speaker 9: were absolutely packed with Davids fans and they were handing
Speaker 9: her roses and doing all sorts of stuff, and she
Speaker 9: was sort of dressed up like Kim Warlden was loving it.
Speaker 9: So there you go.
Speaker 2: Oh awesome, that's a nice story, Matt, Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Have a nice weekend you too, see well.
Speaker 1: Christian Connell's show podcast.
Speaker 2: Since we started the show about four years ago, belly
Speaker 2: Wheat goes by. Actually we don't get some kind of
Speaker 2: call about neighbors. I think we've actually had about ten
Speaker 2: of the cast members taking part another phone in. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: it just happened to be.
Speaker 3: Listening because they're from neighbors, the Timmins, and that we
Speaker 3: spoke to the whole Timmins family.
Speaker 2: The whole family. We've had on and Stephen Dennis as well.
Speaker 2: Do you even when I was obsessed with Stephen Dennis
Speaker 2: for a while? Good morning Christian, Jack and Patsy, Connie
Speaker 2: and Jason used to skateboard outside my shop. All these
Speaker 2: incredible stories today are to do with the weakest claim
Speaker 2: to fame. We're doing a neighbor special on nine four
Speaker 2: one four one o four three. Good morning, Ben, Good
Speaker 2: morning all.
Speaker 11: We climbed the same young Ryan Maloney, which is a
Speaker 11: KA Tody was by our son's basketball coach, junior basketball coach.
Speaker 2: This is a great one. You've got to tell us more,
Speaker 2: Please tell us more.
Speaker 11: The guy is a cracker, he's a he's a bit
Speaker 11: of a legend. He's a great role model for the
Speaker 11: kids up his own basketball club down on the Peninsula.
Speaker 11: He was the president. He coached. He got around it.
Speaker 11: You know, he did some personal development coaching.
Speaker 6: And I mean.
Speaker 2: Phil Jackson wasn't in neighbors. I think he on the
Speaker 2: great Phil Jackson.
Speaker 11: He yeah, mate, he was.
Speaker 2: He was really good.
Speaker 11: He was running like seven am basketball lessons for the
Speaker 11: kids at the local stadium's midweek and then he to
Speaker 11: go off and shooting. I remember one day I was
Speaker 11: having an actor him. I'm like, what are you doing?
Speaker 11: That's work stuff? What do you what do you got
Speaker 11: to read for work? And he's like, oh my lines,
Speaker 11: And I'm.
Speaker 6: Like, did.
Speaker 5: Was this mullet tody? Or was that post mullet?
Speaker 11: No, post mullet.
Speaker 10: This is very serious, serious toy.
Speaker 5: That's right.
Speaker 3: Don't have the other basketball team senior coach with a
Speaker 3: mullet and not taking the game seriously.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's one of the TV show had to change
Speaker 2: his story one because of his basketball coaching. Man, that's
Speaker 2: a great one. Thank you very much for sharing that
Speaker 2: with us. Have a nice Jesus Mark, Good morning. What's
Speaker 2: your week claim to fain to do with Neighbors?
Speaker 12: Yeah, morning, guys, it's another totally one actually all day.
Speaker 10: Yeah, he's a great, great blake.
Speaker 13: But I was in my tuned in thinking he's died
Speaker 13: and we're doing your memories today neighbors to TV show
Speaker 13: has died, but everyone is well okay, so Tody's as well.
Speaker 2: Carry on, mate, rest in peace.
Speaker 12: So we were I was in year ten in the
Speaker 12: nineties and catching a train home from the old Spencer
Speaker 12: Street station of Eline train from school and can we
Speaker 12: get to Spencer Street station? They're actually filming an episode there.
Speaker 12: We were so excited, but the scene was once our
Speaker 12: train left, Tody was actually chasing after it and I
Speaker 12: think his mate, Jesse Spencer was might have gotten on
Speaker 12: the train. He was trying to stop the train, but
Speaker 12: he never caught us. But it was a great, great
Speaker 12: fun to see that episode.
Speaker 5: Your party history.
Speaker 3: Mark, Yeah, certainly, I'm not sure I got in there,
Speaker 3: but but but yes, it was good fun.
Speaker 2: But it would have given so many people in this
Speaker 2: city a little touch of showbiz, of something being filmed,
Speaker 2: of what it all looks like. Mark, Thank you very
Speaker 2: much for the court.
Speaker 1: This is the Christian O'Connell show podcast on.
Speaker 2: The show today. Then coming up this hour knock Off Friday,
Speaker 2: where we always ask you the best question a week.
Speaker 2: What time are you knocking off? Today and what is
Speaker 2: the highlight for you this weekend? And then at eight
Speaker 2: o'clock it is all about just two tradees taking each
Speaker 2: other on in the trade e pentathlon two Trade's five,
Speaker 2: tougher than tough, tougher than tough, tough events, tough but
Speaker 2: tough face. That's enough toughness on today's show. It's all
Speaker 2: at eight'l Before that, though, Neighbors finished yesterday after thirty
Speaker 2: seven years, nine thousand episodes. No an institution here, an
Speaker 2: even bigger institution of UK Jinne's Heyday for fifteen years,
Speaker 2: each episode would put in between eight and ten million
Speaker 2: people watching in the UK. For many of us, me
Speaker 2: being a teenage growing up watching it, I actually thought
Speaker 2: this is what Australia must be like each I haven't
Speaker 2: short changed, haven't been for He's gotta be honest. Anyway,
Speaker 2: that's not for now. This morning we celebrate a great
Speaker 2: TV show. We're looking for your weakest claim to faine,
Speaker 2: a weakest plain to face special to do with Neighbors.
Speaker 2: It deserves this like this and Karen. Years ago, I
Speaker 2: was volunteering at the RSPCA, were sawing through some old paperwork.
Speaker 2: What I saw that Toady's great Toady, all pass me
Speaker 2: to Toady this morning. Brian Maloney had come in the
Speaker 2: day before and doctor two guinea pigs, as us said,
Speaker 2: him and his family were lovely Christian, I'll admit this
Speaker 2: is a very very weak claim to fain. No, it's
Speaker 2: just perfect, all right. That's the kind of standard we're
Speaker 2: looking for this morning. It's low nine four one four
Speaker 2: one oh four three. Good morning, Chris, I'm good Chris.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the show. What have you got for us? Then?
Speaker 2: You and the TV show Neighbors?
Speaker 10: Okay, So when Kylie was first joined, she was an
Speaker 10: apprentice mechanic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember that, yeah. And the overalls, yeah, the
Speaker 2: grease under her eyes.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 10: It was shot at Lavernon at a Laburnum service station
Speaker 10: where it was a fuel and a mechanical workshop. So
Speaker 10: we used to go there and make used to say,
Speaker 10: our neighbors are coming down and they take over the
Speaker 10: whole service station, everything, the workshop. And the funniest thing
Speaker 10: was that the owner, Kliff, my mate's father, was paid
Speaker 10: fifty dollars a day.
Speaker 14: And the.
Speaker 10: Fifty dollars, now, back in the eighties was worth a bit,
Speaker 10: but fifty dollars and he said, oh, that's great money.
Speaker 10: You know, I can make a lot of money doing this.
Speaker 10: But anyway, so they got to see Kylie and the
Speaker 10: crew and.
Speaker 2: Also the Yeah no, Chris, thank you very much for
Speaker 2: show and have a goo weekend, Buddy, thanks for calling
Speaker 2: you too. Thanks christ and Jason.
Speaker 6: Good morning, here were you.
Speaker 7: O.
Speaker 12: My claim was that my boss is an apprentice back
Speaker 12: in the early nineties, bought dwype Piece's motorbike.
Speaker 2: What a claim to thing. There are about three different
Speaker 2: links to get to that out there, that motibike. How
Speaker 2: much did he pay for go Pierce's old motorbike.
Speaker 10: I'm pretty sure it was about four and a half
Speaker 10: the hour, wasn't at the time.
Speaker 2: Bloody, How he's not getting any meets rates the fans
Speaker 2: of the show? Is the old guy?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 7: No, he had four daughters, so I think he bought
Speaker 7: it just to tell.
Speaker 10: Them that he had paid his bike.
Speaker 2: Right, Jason, thank you very much. A cool have a
Speaker 2: nice weekend, do you do?
Speaker 6: Thank you? Shy Hello.
Speaker 14: My week claim to fame is that the Neighbor's agents
Speaker 14: raigning to Domato Robbie's makeup when she started on Neighbors
Speaker 14: and I was busy, and I didn't really try and
Speaker 14: anything much of her, or it would be anything and
Speaker 14: you have for a picture at the end, and I
Speaker 14: was like, oh, if you want one, okay, And then
Speaker 14: she just turned out to be a massive celebrity, making
Speaker 14: twelve million dollars.
Speaker 2: Yes, one of the world's biggest actresses are right now? Yeah,
Speaker 2: oh Chevy, we all have regrets. Yours is a Margo.
Speaker 7: Robbie one, yes, definitely.
Speaker 2: All right, that's might have a nice Vik and Christian.
Speaker 2: When we were living in box Hill about ten years ago,
Speaker 2: our house was used for three days as the home
Speaker 2: of one of the main neighbors characters illegitimate daughter. What
Speaker 2: a claim to fame. Thank you very much, Peter.
Speaker 1: This is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.